| 单词 | essex or rumford lion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEssex or Rumford lion c. Applied ironically (usually with qualification) to certain weak or timid animals: †lion of Cotswold, †Cotswold lion (also Scottish Lammermoor lion), a sheep; Essex or Rumford lion, a calf. See also quots. 1825, 1828. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [noun] > one who is timid > ironical name for sheep lion of Cotswold1546 Cotswold lion1548 Lammermoor lion1721 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > humorous names for mutton?c1335 lion of Cotswold1546 Cotswold lion1548 Lammermoor lion1721 the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [noun] > one who is timid > ironical name for a calf Essex or Rumford lion1678 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > calf > [noun] > weak or timid Essex or Rumford lion1699 the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [noun] > one who is timid > ironical name for a hare lion1825 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare) harea700 wimountc1280 wood-catc1280 babbart?a1300 ballart?a1300 bigge?a1300 goibert?a1300 grasshopper?a1300 lightfoot?a1300 long-ear?a1300 make-fare?a1300 pintail?a1300 pollart?a1300 purblind?a1300 roulekere?a1300 scot?a1300 scotewine?a1300 side-looker?a1300 sitter?a1300 westlooker?a1300 wort-cropper?a1300 break-forwardc1300 broom-catc1300 swikebertc1300 cawel-herta1325 deuberta1325 deudinga1325 fern-sittera1325 fitelfoota1325 foldsittera1325 furze cata1325 scutardea1325 skikarta1325 stobherta1325 straw deera1325 turpina1325 skulker1387 chavarta1400 soillarta1400 waldeneiea1400 scutc1440 coward1486 wata1500 bawtiec1536 puss1575 watkin1585 malkin1706 pussy1715 bawd1785 lion1825 dew-hopper- 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Eiiiv She is as fiers, as a lyon of cotsolde. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iv. vi. sig. G.iij Then will he looke as fierce as a Cotssold lyon. ?1562 Thersytes sig. A.iiiv Now haue at the lyons on cotsolde. a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1618) iii. 18 Loe then, the mystery from whence the name Of Cotsold Lyons first to England came. 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 307 As valiant as an Essex lion, i.e. a calf. 1699 T. Brown Let. 12 Sept. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 112 That prodigy of a man that..so dexterously Mimick'd the Harmony of the Essex Lyons. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rumford-Lyon, a Calf. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 380 You look like a Lamermoor Lyon. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 156 I'll thank you for a cut out of the back of that lion, tittered a man opposite. With all the natural timidity of the hare whom he thus particularised, I was proceeding to help him [etc.]. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. ii. 10 ‘It is a hare, Sir.’ ‘What!’ ‘Yes, Sir, it is a hare!—but we call it a lion, because of the Game Laws.’ < as lemmas |
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